Quotes about Values
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
— George Washington
The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.
— Ezra Taft Benson
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
— David Starr Jordan
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.
— Tony Campolo
To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
— Joyce Meyer
Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.
— Henry B. Eyring
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
— Ayn Rand
Culture socializes us into what is considered proper behavior. For Christians, this is true in our churches as well as in society at large.
— Scot McKnight
It is one thing to be judgmental; it is entirely different to say greed is wrong or that sexual sins are wrong, and saying so is not judgmentalism.
— Scot McKnight
Jesus is probing into the heart of his followers to ask them if they value life more than kingdom and righteousness.
— Scot McKnight
We stand with Calvin when it comes to the moral compass: Jesus "means that however difficult, arduous, troublesome or painful God's rule may be, we must make no excuse for that, as the righteousness of God should be worth more to us, than all the other things which are chiefly dear and precious.
— Scot McKnight